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With pilot funding from the Ford Foundation in fall 2009, we started off with a goal shared by many in Somerville: supporting community collaboration in young people's success. Many of Somerville's students, families, educators, leaders, and technologists wanted to experiment (or were experimenting) with tools and strategies to spark and support everyday partnership in and around their diverse, mixed-income, and multilingual community. We used Ford funding to support projects already rolling in the community and to spark others that hadn’t yet begun. A grant from the Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine, of the MacArthur Foundation, helped us finish this documentation and share some initial ¡Ahas!. For more on our participatory design research approach, click here! Click here to see mini descriptions of all projects, or just go check out any project via the sidebar.

Somerville

Somerville (population approx. 77,000) represents the diversity, complexity, and typical divisions of a large city, in terms of languages (42), racial-ethnic groups (with large Central American, Brazilian, and Haitian immigrant populations), and economic groups (with a long working class and college-student history, and recent explosion of young professionals and white middle class families). According to the state, 63% of all students in the SPS are members of “racial/ethnic minority” groups, and 68% receive free and reduced price lunch.
http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/profiles/student.aspx?orgcode=02740000&orgtypecode=5&leftNavId=305&
People often talk about there being multiple "Villes" -- new gentrifiers, new immigrants, and an longstanding white working class. There's also a fourth "Ville" of local university students and grads. It's been the perfect place to explore ways of supporting collaboration across One "Ville"!

Our Team

(This is only a partial list of the many people who have contributed to this project, either with great ideas or with many hours of their time!)